Lessons 1-10 Mandarin Chinese Lesson 38: 听 Listen / Hear

听 老师 说。 Listen to the teacher.
Tīng lăoshī shuō.
Listen teacher speak.

我 正在 听 你 说。I am listening to you.
Wŏ zhèngzài tīng nĭ shuō.
I straight is listen you speak.

学生 不 听 我 说。The students don't listen to me.
Xuésheng bù tīng wŏ shuō.
Study-born not listen I speak.

我 听说 你 是 历史 老师。I've heard that you are a history teacher.
Wŏ tīng shuō nĭ shì lìshĭ lăoshī.
I listen hear you are history old-master.

我 听说 这位 老师 发音 不 好。I've heard that the teacher's pronunciation is not good.
Wŏ tīng shuō zhèwèi lăoshī făyīn bù hăo.
I listen hear this-one old-master send-sound not good.

我 听 懂 了。I understood.
Wŏ tīng dŏng le.
I listen hear finished.

我 听 不 懂 他 说的 话。I didn't understand what he said.
Wŏ tīng bù dŏng tā shuōde huà.
I hear not understand he say-of speech.

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Mandarin is a tone language--that is, different pitch patterns actually distinguish one word from another. Mandarin has no irregular verbs or noun plurals to learn, because words have only a single form. Because Mandarin is completely unrelated to any European language, you may think it might be difficult to develop your vocabulary. However, it really is not that difficult. Why? The reason is that the meanings of many words consisting of two or more characters can be inferred from the meanings of the characters or even the roots of individual characters. So, your vocabulary can rapidly expand when you have grasped the basic characters and character roots.